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In the general case there is no bound on the number of clients. Consider: When your client crashes, does it assume a new identity on restart? Because you didn'

• lisper 2y ago
  > In the general case there is no bound on the number of clients. Sure. So? > When your client crashes, does it assume a new identity on restart? Um, no? Is that really a serious question? Do you think computers in the real world lose their identity when they restart? > Because you didn't say that the sender saved its latest message in stable storage. I left out a lot of details that I assumed would be obvious and taken for granted. I didn't say, for example, that the intended recipient would be attached to the message either, but obviously that must be the case if there is more than one possible recipient. There are a zillion little details like that which I elided. A complete treatment would probably turn into a book because I'd have to start talking about things like atomicity, mutual exclusion, databases and transactions. But those are all red herrings.